Sentence examples for scant sense from inspiring English sources

There is scant sense of nationhood.

This rigid reading of the Clause makes scant sense and is stunningly retrogressive.

This makes scant sense, but the eye doesn't object at all.

But the performance had scant sense of structure, and for all the driving energy it lacked rhythmic precision.

Everything was built up, in concrete and stone, and the millions who lived on the tiny interior had scant sense about what flowed around them.

The script, by Darci Picoult, is similar to that of "Outside In" regarding its scant sense of information and minimal definition of its characters.

Even his clothes make scant dramatic sense.

In this sense, scant scientific literature is available, and only two instruments are worth of mention: an instrument that is based on an orthodox theoretical approach to MI: the Motivational Interviewing Skills Code: MISC [ 14], and its synthesized version -more applicable-, the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity or MITI [ 15].

There is scant evidence of that sense of unity now.

If these things can wait a year, Americans should be told why -- and why, if there are scant resources, it makes sense to siphon off these resources for wasteful tax cuts.

That said, the closing passages put me in mind of an oblique English equivalent to "The Miracle Worker , the verbal catharsis in the American writer William Gibson's theatrical war horse displaced to a breakthrough within Mr. Holman's puzzlingly charged landscape that makes scant literal or metaphoric sense.